2018 and the Miracle Christmas

What was your greatest accomplishment in 2018, or what was something you did that made you feel especially proud? I COPED. Okay, yeah, I know: everybody is always coping... but this past year pre...

Redirect Tool error message

Is anybody else getting a Redirect Tool error message this morning? This is a critical problem for me as I use the Redirect Tool to manage my class navigation. I've reported this as a Help ticket, bu...

Preparing for the Post-LMS World by Jonathan Rees

I wanted to share an important opinion piece that appeared in Inside Higher Ed this week: Preparing for the Post-LMS World by Jonathan Rees. I left a ton of comments there at the article b...

30. Thirty Blog Posts!

Okay, this is a meta-post: it is post number 30 in my series of 30 InstructureCon blog posts. Whoo-hoo! I've been tagged them as #InstCon30, but they are out of order there now that I updated all my ...

29. My Video Gallery

I was really happy to learn that I can embed the InstructureCon videos in Canvas Pages (details about that), and so what I did was to create a Canvas Page at my InstCon site for each video I had ment...

28. Some InstructureCon Feedback

Here's another wrapping-up post to end this series (just two more to go after this one), and what I wanted to write about here is some suggestions that I would have to share back with the great peopl...

27. Conference "Beginner's Mind"

As I get ready to wrap up this series of blog posts about InstructureCon, I thought I would write something here about "beginner's mind" and the mistakes / lessons learned for me. I met so many peopl...

26. Clowns and Cannonballs

I've kind-of sort-of been writing the blog posts in order of events, and since I am getting to the end of my 30-blog-post plan, I want to write about the ending event of InstructureCon/InstructureCar...

25. Michelle and @ONE

You can see the embedded video here: Michelle Pacansky-Brock * I'm typing the word on-line with a hyphen for reasons having to do with a tech problem at this platform; I know it looks weird, but...

24. Embedding InstCon Videos

I took some time this morning to play with the InstructureCon videos which you can find here: https://www.canvaslms.com/instructurecon/video/2018/  What I learned today is that, glory hallel...

23. Hawksey's #InstCon Widget!!!

I learned something AMAZING today at Twitter, which was a cause of much rejoicing (and for  @KristinL ‌ too!): the ever-generous and ever-ingenious Martin Hawksey has added an embeddable wi...

22. Ted, UX Wizard

We don't have a video for this one, but Ted has shared his slides! As I mentioned in my previous post on the UnConference, while Kona and her helpers were arranging all the post-it notes into sess...

Campus-Wide Syllabus/Policies in Canvas Courses

Hi everybody! I'm not sure if this should be a question or a discussion, but I am wondering if there are examples out there of schools, especially universities, that use Canvas to distribute a kind o...

21. The UnConference: Outstanding!

So I got out of synch here when I saw the video had been made available, but they are still putting the finishing touches on that (just speaking for myself, I hope they will disable the popup that as...

20. Linda, Blueprint Goddess!

You can see the embedded video here: Linda Jean Lee Wow, the end of the summer really is here, and the official first day of class is (gulp)... tomorrow. I probably should have tried to get myse...

19. Embed Magician Extraordinaire

You can see the embedded video here: Sean Nufer I got behind on my InstCon posts yesterday (busy day!), but it works out really nicely to get caught up today with two wonderful sessions from Thu...

18. Michael Bonner's Magic

And so the whirlwind-of-learning began again on Thursday morning with the Michael Bonner keynote (banner image above is from his website). The presentation was FABULOUS! I hope lots of people we...

17. Local AND Global

After all the keynotes and session on Wednesday, my brain was... TIRED. But the River Run Street Fair brought me back to life: it was wonderful! I got to meet up with friends there, including Instruc...

16. The Wednesday Keynotes

You can see the embedded video here: Jared Stein (Adora Svitak's keynote is not available, unfortunately). After reporting on the five sessions I went to on Wednesday, I wanted to also say ...

15. RATS: Strong RATS.

You can see the embedded video here: Matthew Jennings This whole 30-post approach is working out great: I'm halfway through the posts, and I've also reach the end of the first day of sessions, w...